When creating my new coach directory, CoachGuiden (in Swedish only), I wanted to protect the email addresses from those that harvest for spam purposes.
I found CryptX, author page at CryptX (in German), which works very well.
See more in my list of WordPress plugins.
I came across a great article about WordPress and SEO, search engine optimization. The article is WordPress SEO – Definitive Guide To High Rankings For Your Blog and includes eight sections about different things to consider in order to make your WordPress site as visible as possible. Save a link to the article since it [...]
I got WordPress Firefox Add-on: Zemanta from Hack WordPress in my mail today. Zemanta looks like a very interesting tool for bloggers. They currently support Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted Wordpresses from version 2.0 onwards.
Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more [...]
I have found some useful blogs about WordPress that I have added to the feeds I subscribe to. In no special order they are WordPress Expert, All4wordpress, Hack WordPress and WordPress Max.
I had a manually created list of My Favourite Posts in the right hand menu before. It worked but not as easy as I wanted it too. Today I came across the Best Foot Forward widget which allows you to select which tags that shall be listed. I created a new tag, MyFav, and just [...]
One of my other blogs got targeted with spam comments, all aimed for one specific post. I did turn of comments for that post but that did not help, I have gotten 5,200 spams in a short period of time. Akismet properly catches the spam comments but I wanted to stop spam from getting into [...]
Blog Design has posted How to Blog Design Style Guide. It is a terrific walk through of the different parts of a blog with suggestions on how to improve them. I will get back here and see what I can use as modifications of the theme I am using.
My view on the design of Blog [...]
Brian Clark at Copyblogger asks Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream? The article sets RSS versus email but I do not see it that way. The important thing to me is that readers follow a blog, not which way they prefer to do it. Personally I prefer to subscribe to RSS-feeds through email and then read [...]
Over at Hack WordPress is a post titled How To: Hiding Your Affiliate Links using WordPress. A simple one line PHP-page is created for each link and placed on your own site. You then link to this PHP-page instead of linking directly to the external page. The good thing is that you have the external [...]
Skellie, of Skelliewag and Anywired, has created a great free eBook, a 27-page eBook version of a series of posts that appeared on Skelliewag in 2007. It is open source and as Skellie writes “do whatever you want with it: offer it as a download on your blog or website, share it with friends, or [...]